Current News From Barton Marine ..

Barton Marine fittings are now fitted as standard on all new Bembridge Swan Class day boats, built in the UK by the Bembridge Swan Boat Company.

Barton Marine's company secretary Pat Carter is stepping down from full-time employment, after 47 years. Our longest-serving team member, Pat joined the company in 1966 and worked for founder and original owner, Ron Barton before working with David Coleman, owner since 1986.

The Laser® dinghy is one of the most popular One Design single hander dinghies in the world. Designed by Canadian Bruce Kirby, there are some 200,000 Lasers® built and many are still in existence, many 30 years old or more.

Our brand new removable mainsheet traveller system was showcased at the recent HISWA show held in Amsterdam at the beginning of the month. The Innovation Showcase brought together the best of the brand new products launched this year and certainly created a stir!

Stephan Boden has been creating quite a stir with his brilliant blog and news of his adventures around the Baltic Sea aboard his Varianta 18 ‘Digger' - equipped with Barton fittings. His blog http://diggerhamburg.wordpress.com/ was started in March 2012 and has received nearly 550.000 visitors, plus 650 followers on Facebook.

The following article has been written by Stephan Boden and kindly been loosely translated into English language for us to include on our website.

The RYA Dinghy Show, in association with Yachts & Yachting magazine and Suzuki is taking place over the weekend of March 2^nd and 3^rd at Alexandra Palace, London.

Barton Marine Sales Manager, Christian Brewer recently visited the annual Helsinki Boat Show to support Oy Maritim, our distributor for Finland and Russia.

The latest Barton sailing hardware will be on display at various boat shows over the next couple of months.

Our distributors and chandlers stocking our products are displaying a wide choice of Barton equipment at the following dates and shows..

This month, we’ll have Barton products at both the Tullett Prebon London Boat Show in the UK (Saturday 12th – Sunday 20th January) and boot Düsseldorf in Germany (Saturday 19th – Sunday 27th January).

If you’re planning on visiting us at the upcoming boat shows, or simply want some more information before choosing a Barton deck hardware system, we’ve created an article on leading lines aft to help you with some ideas before you arrive at the show...

John and Alex Foord’s Barton equipped Halberg Rassy ‘Free Spirit’ wintered up in Grenada for the Hurricane Season They’re now back on board and continuing their adventures. Check out their latest update...